Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
If we're going to buy into the notion that the NFL is rigged, then we should be skeptical of the Chiefs as well. They just so happened to have their worst game in over 3 years, in the Super Bowl, while playing against a team they thrashed earlier in the year?
My question is, why on Earth would the NFL not want Mahomes to win that game? It just seems like common business sense.
Mahomes is the better player, he's the more spectacular player, he's much better theater. Brady is on his way out, he's old, won't be around more than a couple more years.
It's a no brainer for him to have him pass the torch to Mahomes in that Super Bowl. It gives the NFL another face as big as Brady for the next 15 years. The thrill of the "GOAT chase" would have made for enthralling storylines year after year.
Instead, the referees ensured that Mahomes never had a chance. They ended the GOAT debate before it even had a chance to begin. They erased potential storylines that would have carried the league for the forseeable future.
It just doesn't make any sense. We KNOW the game was unfairly officiated. The statistics are impossible to ignore. The question is "Why Brady?" when common business sense says you want Mahomes to win that game. The NFL had a big opportunity on Sunday Night and they made a very perplexing choice. [Reply]
Originally Posted by comochiefsfan:
My question is, why on Earth would the NFL not want Mahomes to win that game? It just seems like common business sense.
Mahomes is the better player, he's the more spectacular player, he's much better theater. Brady is on his way out, he's old, won't be around more than a couple more years.
It's a no brainer for him to have him pass the torch to Mahomes in that Super Bowl. It gives the NFL another face as big as Brady for the next 15 years. The thrill of the "GOAT chase" would have made for enthralling storylines year after year.
Instead, the referees ensured that Mahomes never had a chance. They ended the GOAT debate before it even had a chance to begin. They erased potential storylines that would have carried the league for the forseeable future.
It just doesn't make any sense. We KNOW the game was unfairly officiated. The statistics are impossible to ignore. The question is "Why Brady?" when common business sense says you want Mahomes to win that game. The NFL had a big opportunity on Sunday Night and they made a very perplexing choice.
Because it's probably not some mandate from league to "make" Tom Brady the winner. Like some folks already mentioned, it's a combination of factors like favoritism, constant grooming of the officials by Tom (complaining, pointing out things to look for, etc), and respect he's earned over the years.
He's the NFL's golden boy, the biggest star, and gets treated like one. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pants:
Because it's probably not some mandate from league to "make" Tom Brady the winner. Like some folks already mentioned, it's a combination of factors like favoritism, constant grooming of the officials by Tom (complaining, pointing out things to look for, etc), and respect he's earned over the years.
He's the NFL's golden boy, the biggest star, and gets treated like one.
Originally Posted by Pants:
Because it's probably not some mandate from league to "make" Tom Brady the winner. Like some folks already mentioned, it's a combination of factors like favoritism, constant grooming of the officials by Tom (complaining, pointing out things to look for, etc), and respect he's earned over the years.
He's the NFL's golden boy, the biggest star, and gets treated like one.
Originally Posted by comochiefsfan:
My question is, why on Earth would the NFL not want Mahomes to win that game? It just seems like common business sense.
Mahomes is the better player, he's the more spectacular player, he's much better theater. Brady is on his way out, he's old, won't be around more than a couple more years.
It's a no brainer for him to have him pass the torch to Mahomes in that Super Bowl. It gives the NFL another face as big as Brady for the next 15 years. The thrill of the "GOAT chase" would have made for enthralling storylines year after year.
Instead, the referees ensured that Mahomes never had a chance. They ended the GOAT debate before it even had a chance to begin. They erased potential storylines that would have carried the league for the forseeable future.
It just doesn't make any sense. We KNOW the game was unfairly officiated. The statistics are impossible to ignore. The question is "Why Brady?" when common business sense says you want Mahomes to win that game. The NFL had a big opportunity on Sunday Night and they made a very perplexing choice.
I was thinking about this earlier today...is it possible they're just setting brady up so he can be knocked down by Mahomes? Are they rigging games for Brady now and once he retires they'll rig them for Mahomes so they get the ULTIMATE story line and completely squeeze the juice out of both lemons (Mahomes and Brady)? [Reply]
Originally Posted by comochiefsfan:
My question is, why on Earth would the NFL not want Mahomes to win that game? It just seems like common business sense.
Mahomes is the better player, he's the more spectacular player, he's much better theater. Brady is on his way out, he's old, won't be around more than a couple more years.
It's a no brainer for him to have him pass the torch to Mahomes in that Super Bowl. It gives the NFL another face as big as Brady for the next 15 years. The thrill of the "GOAT chase" would have made for enthralling storylines year after year.
Instead, the referees ensured that Mahomes never had a chance. They ended the GOAT debate before it even had a chance to begin. They erased potential storylines that would have carried the league for the forseeable future.
It just doesn't make any sense. We KNOW the game was unfairly officiated. The statistics are impossible to ignore. The question is "Why Brady?" when common business sense says you want Mahomes to win that game. The NFL had a big opportunity on Sunday Night and they made a very perplexing choice.
This is the same league who took a look at that tiny soccer stadium in Carson and still agreed with Dean Spanos that it was a better place to play than San Diego. Their decisions stopped making logical sense a while ago, they're all based on greed and complacency now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by comochiefsfan:
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Instead, the referees ensured that Mahomes never had a chance.
We KNOW the game was unfairly officiated. The statistics are impossible to ignore. The question is "Why Brady?" when common business sense says you want Mahomes to win that game. The NFL had a big opportunity on Sunday Night and they made a very perplexing choice.
Oh, so you see how the NFL manipulates the outcomes to their games too? [Reply]
So what ever happened with the Pats being caught cheating again last year and filming the opponents sideline? Last I heard the NFL "was investigating". [Reply]
Originally Posted by jjjayb:
So what ever happened with the Pats being caught cheating again last year and filming the opponents sideline? Last I heard the NFL "was investigating".
Stripped of a 3rd round draft pick and fined 1.1 million.
It wasn't intentional and I believe the league acknowledged that. I mean if you are going to film a team to cheat, why choose a team like Cincinnati that was like the worst in the league that season. [Reply]
I think Brady has a good eye for attacking defenders who are out of position or are in a position to commit a penalty. With enough air under a ball you can get a defender to mistime his break on the wr thus creating an artificial pi
In order to contend this point we’d need to go through all 27 of his PI calls and count how many were not obvious.
The number of 50/50 calls is what we should be looking at.
It is possible that Brady is skilled at getting teams to interfere. There are ways to increase the likelihood [Reply]
Pretty sure he was referencing Peyton Manning, not Eli. Peyton was a far better QB than Brady ever has been. Maybe if he consistently got the help Brady has, he'd be on par in Super Bowl wins too. Instead, he was only gifted one. [Reply]
